Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-30 Thread Piotr Kamiński
I'm sorry, I wanted to send the message below to the list and instead I sent it to just one user. Piotr Dnia 23-05-2011 o 10:29:24 Piotr Kamiński napisał(a): Dnia 23-05-2011 o 00:58:55 Brendan Simon (eTRIX) napisał(a): ... Take a look at Cobra. http://cobra-language.com/docs/pytho

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-27 Thread harrismh777
Paul Rubin wrote: Haskell probably has the most vibrant development community at the moment but its learning curve is quite steep, and it has various shortcomings some of which are being worked on but others of which may be insurmountable. Yes. You might want to lurk on: http://lambda-the-u

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-24 Thread Paul Rubin
John Lee writes: > In this thread, I'm asking about the views of Python programmers on > languages other than Python. I sympathize with what you're looking for but I don't think there's a really good answer at this time. Things IMO are converging in the direction of functional languages like H

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-23 Thread rantingrick
On May 23, 7:04 pm, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Falcon seems to collect programming paradigms the way Perl > collects language features, i.e. by just munging them all > together and bending parts until they fit. Not that i am picking on anyone here... but... Why is okay to rip apart Perl with jagged

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-23 Thread Gregory Ewing
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:11:40 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: ...until you want to read someone *else's* code, that is. The same might be said about Python, which supports procedural, OO and functional styles out of the box. But it only uses *one* syntax and core set of c

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-23 Thread Robin Becker
On 21/05/2011 16:49, John J Lee wrote: I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are things I don't like. .. a relatively new one that's going about is cobra, http://cobra-language.com/, it appears to have some of the features you indicate eg speed, some kind of int

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Angelico
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > And presumably anyone who has played around with GUI programming in > Python will have run into message oriented coding. > GUI code almost always involves a main loop somewhere that consists of: while not time_to_terminate:  get_message()

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Mon, 23 May 2011 13:11:40 +1200, Gregory Ewing wrote: > Ed Keith wrote: >> Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? > > This paragraph on the first page doesn't exactly fire me with enthuiasm: > >> Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural, >> object orient

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Gregory Ewing
Ed Keith wrote: Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? This paragraph on the first page doesn't exactly fire me with enthuiasm: Falcon provides six integrated programming paradigms: procedural, object oriented, prototype oriented, functional, tabular and message oriented. And y

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Kluev
On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:33 AM, John Lee wrote: > Pylint?  Does it provide some kind of guessed-at-type that has been integrated > with IDEs? WingIDE Pro has both Pylint integration and advanced type-guessing. -- With best regards, Daniel Kluev -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytho

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 23/05/11 7:17 AM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote: > Subject: > Re: Abandoning Python > From: > John Lee > Date: > Sun, 22 May 2011 21:13:44 + (UTC) > > >> > >> > Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? It seems to have a

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
John Lee pobox.com> writes: [...] > That's interesting, thanks. I see this is a different pylint than the old > logilab pylint. Unfortunate choice of name, since it makes it hard to find > IDE integration work that's already done. Hmm, I see the last release was in 2003 :-( John -- http:/

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
Ed Keith yahoo.com> writes: > > Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? It seems to have a lot > of what you are looking for. I'm more interested in other people's opinions than my own "looking for"s. What *should* I be looking for (other than Python itself)? What's interesting,

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
Dan Stromberg gmail.com> writes: [...] > Pylint does type inferencing - I find it very valuable on large projects, and > even some not-so-large projects.I doubt Pylint's been integrated into any > IDE's, [...] That's interesting, thanks. I see this is a different pylint than the old logilab py

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:33 AM, John Lee wrote: > Dan Stromberg gmail.com> writes: > > > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, John J Lee pobox.com> wrote: > > > > I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are > > things I don't like. > > What are your favourite up-and-comin

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Ed Keith
Have you looked at Falcon (http://www.falconpl.org/)? It seems to have a lot of what you are looking for. I do not have much experience with it but I like what I've seen so far, except that there are not any third party tools or libraries libraries. Which is where Python shines. -EdK Ed Kei

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
Stefan Behnel behnel.de> writes: > > John J Lee, 22.05.2011 17:58: > > Daniel Kluev writes: > >> Also, most of these complaints could be solved by using correct python > >> dialect for particular task - RPython, Cython and so on. > > > > Different topic. > > Why? The intended focus was "things

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread Stefan Behnel
John J Lee, 22.05.2011 17:58: Daniel Kluev writes: Also, most of these complaints could be solved by using correct python dialect for particular task - RPython, Cython and so on. Different topic. Why? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
Dan Stromberg gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, John J Lee pobox.com> wrote: > > I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are > things I don't like. > What are your favourite up-and-coming languages of the moment? > Here's my wishlist (not really in an

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John Lee
Bill Allen gmail.com> writes: > You have ideas, a text editor, and a computer - best get to coding. > What's stopping you? You largely want Python, with modifications. > Join the development team and help implement those changes, or fork > your own flavor and do what you wish. Right? You imag

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-22 Thread John J Lee
Daniel Kluev writes: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM, John J Lee wrote: >> Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): > > How come pony is not listed there? Language cannot be better than > python without pony! Pony, absolutely. I took that as read. >>  * An even larger user base, contr

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Daniel Kluev wrote: > Also, most of these complaints could be solved by using correct python > dialect for particular task - RPython, Cython and so on. > Cython is an interesting dialect that I use now and then. RPython is probably just as well avoided. PyPy, w

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 9:00 AM, John Bokma wrote: > > A language I want to give a serious try the coming months is Haskell. > > Haskell is indeed interesting. However, do any of Haskell's implementations exploit the opportunities for parallelism that Haskell's definition allows? -- http://mail

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:49 AM, John J Lee wrote: > > > I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are > things I don't like. > > What are your favourite up-and-coming languages of the moment? > > Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): > > * A widely used standard f

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Daniel Kluev
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Daniel Kluev wrote: > According to all language popularity indexes [1-10], C# and Forgot to include references, although everyone probably already knows them, [1] https://www.ohloh.net/languages?query=&sort=projects [2] http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/pap

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Daniel Kluev
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM, John J Lee wrote: > Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): How come pony is not listed there? Language cannot be better than python without pony! >  * An even larger user base, contributing more and better free and >   commercial software. According to al

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread Bill Allen
You have ideas, a text editor, and a computer - best get to coding. What's stopping you? You largely want Python, with modifications. Join the development team and help implement those changes, or fork your own flavor and do what you wish. Right? You imagine it's an easy task, so get after

Re: Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread John Bokma
John J Lee writes: > > > I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are > things I don't like. > > What are your favourite up-and-coming languages of the moment? > > Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): > > * A widely used standard for (optional) interface declarat

Abandoning Python

2011-05-21 Thread John J Lee
I still like Python after using it for over a decade, but there are things I don't like. What are your favourite up-and-coming languages of the moment? Here's my wishlist (not really in any order): * A widely used standard for (optional) interface declaration -- or something better. I wan